Beta Quotes

Take the platypus - that is not a finished product. It is clearly still in beta.

Beta and modern portfolio theory and the like - none of it makes any sense to me.

We can provide beta software to our developers in advance of the general public. We can easily link up with external partners, customers, and suppliers.

When you're in a major market downturn, the beta eats the alpha.

It was very early, and we were still like beta or alpha stage, and so we started receiving a ton of download. The server became overloaded, and that's when I realized that this had a huge market.

Remember, benchmark performance -- beta -- can be had for virtually free; alpha is what active managers are paid to generate.

So my advice to startups in this particular category is if you’re going to put your product in beta - put your business model in beta with it. Far too often we are too product focused and not business-model focused. That’s one thing I definitely would have done differently with JotSpot.